by Sasha Stone | Jun 21, 2008 | Blog 'em and Weep, Italy 2007
Finished, I tell you. Flipping through O Magazine and it suddenly hit me that the cult of Oprah is about perfecting, not accepting. Suze Orman scolding we befuddled and bad financial planners, the array of things we can’t possibly afford – freaking ballet...
by Sasha Stone | Jun 15, 2008 | Blog 'em and Weep
I guess my question is, why wouldn’t I read Drudge? So many of my liberal friends don’t because of his obvious right wing slant. We know this to be true. I read him several times a day and have for years. I even used to listen to his radio show and...
by Sasha Stone | Jun 14, 2008 | Blog 'em and Weep
Unless you’re one of those people who makes reservations one year in advance. I am so not one of those people. There is camping up and down the coast, all booked solid. Since my daughter and I can’t afford to go to Italy this year (barring some monetary...
by Sasha Stone | Jun 13, 2008 | Blog 'em and Weep
I had to laugh yesterday when we delivered our hard-won newspaper to our fourth grade class and other administrators around the school and a new parent approached. Her daughter was being brought into the fifth grade magnet. Supposedly, according to the admins, there...
by Sasha Stone | Jun 12, 2008 | Blog 'em and Weep
There is an odd sort of disconnect in the Los Angeles educational industry, I should call it, where there are programs that are springing up everywhere that parents can fork out vast amounts of dough to send their kids. They aren’t cushy summer camps where the...
by Sasha Stone | May 31, 2008 | Blog 'em and Weep
Unfortunately for us, a family who could really benefit from the magnet system in Los Angeles, we are completely out of the loop. Emma is behind 8 points right now from the rest of her classmates who are working the magnet system. In 2007, Newsweek named a school...
I spend way too much thinking about me.
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